Uranium-Extracting Technology for Seawater Earns Research Award for Grad Student
Thursday, October 30, 2014 - 17:30
in Physics & Chemistry
Scientists have long known that seawater contains small concentrations of valuable metals, but a technologically feasible extraction method has remained elusive. The University of Chicago's Carter Abney has been developing materials called metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) to help address the problem.